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This view is similar of the stadium in London is very similar to the perspective Mehretu used in Stadia II. It shows both the people in the stadium and the track.

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The energetic and quick lines in Stadia II represent movement, both of fans in the stand and athletes in the stadium.

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Mehretu was very interested in architecture, but mainly in the first steps on construction. A lot of her work looks like a blue print.

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Mehretu's painting Empirical Construction: Istanbul was based off of the city plan of Istanbul. She was drawn towards old cities, like Istanbul, Venice, and Berlin because of her intent in construction and the start of civilizations.

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Mehretu based her painting Berliner-Plätze on courts in Berlin. If you look closely at the paintings, you can sort of make out the arches.

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Julie Mehretu created Stadia II in 2004, and based it off of the architecture of a stadium. The different colors represent the flags of different countries, which together symbolize people of different backgrounds coming together. The painting represents unity and the coming together of people.

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Julie Mehretu was born in Ethiopia and moved to Michigan when she was 1977 for her father's job. Even though she lived in Ethiopia for a short time, it gave her a unique view and contributed to her love of travel in her later life. She worked a lot in Africa and Europe.

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Julie Mehretu was very influenced by Jackson Pollock, both by his scale and technique. Like a lot of American painter's Pollock and Mehretu both painted on very large canvases, and it was Pollock that influenced Mehretu to do so. While Mehretu does not do the drip style that Pollock does, she was very captivated by his use of color and energetic lines.

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Mehretu has two studios (one in Berlin and one in New York) that she splits her time between. The architecture of both cities inspire her and her paintings. Along with city plans, government and public buildings influence her and her art. She especially picks buildings that are special or unique to a city, like the Berlin Courts or the waterfront buildings in Venice. She also overlaid buildings on top of each other.

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"The paintings occurred in an intangible no-place: a blank terrain, an abstracted map space. As I continued to work I needed a context for the marks, the characters. By combining many types of architectural plans and drawings I tried to create a metaphoric, tectonic view of structural history. I wanted to bring my drawing into time and place"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iejZMhJv030

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Julie Mehretu went to the Rhode Island School of Design where she obtained her master. Prior to school, Mehretu focused mainly on painting and drawing, but at the RISD, she experimented with many techniques including printmaking. Now, she uses multiple medias in her painting.